Umazi

Umazi is a married woman, and she has five children all of whom are adults. She owns a house that has neither electricity nor piped water. Her greatest monthly expense is food.

Umazi operates a cereal-selling business, selling from home to her neighbours and passersby. She faces a major challenge of seasonality.

With the loan, she wants to purchase sacks of maize, beans, and rice for resale. She joined Yehu to get financial support.

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About Yehu Microfinance Trust

This loan is administered by Yehu Microfinance Trust, which was founded in 1998 as a project of CHOICE Humanitarian Kenya. In July 2007, Yehu became a separate entity from CHOICE and was registered as a trust. Since then, Yehu has expanded to cover over half of Kenya’s 13 coastal districts.